Chapter 222 Guardiola: Give Manchester City a little Bundesliga shock!

December 11, Allianz Arena, Munich.

Twelve minutes have passed since the match between Manchester City and Bayern, and the score on the field is 2:0.

The home team goes first and the away team goes last.

The situation was almost the same as the last time they met. Bayern used a powerful offensive to suppress Manchester City in the opening stage and scored a goal.

The difference is that this time Bayern scored more goals. They scored two goals.

The goals scored for Bayern were Muller and Gotze.

Looking at the score on the field, the Bayern fans who came to the Allianz Arena collectively became excited.

They thought the team would win, but they never thought the team would take such a big lead at the start.

Manchester City has never failed on all fronts this season. The last time the two sides met, the opponent even reversed and defeated them at home.

This makes Bayern fans subconsciously think that this game may be very difficult. Even if they can win, they will have to pay a huge price and win very hard.

But what they didn't expect was that they had already taken such a big lead in just ten minutes.

According to the Champions League promotion rules, when two teams have the same points and the same winning-loss relationship, they will be ranked based on goal difference.

Among them, the goal difference between the two teams directly playing against each other ranks first. If even this is the same, then look at the total goal difference.

In the last round, Bayern lost to Manchester City with a score of 2:3, and they only lost one goal.

If they can defeat Manchester City with a score of 2:0 this time, their goal difference against Manchester City will be overtaken.

Therefore, according to this score, Bayern will replace Manchester City and take the first place in Group D.

Seeing this score, Bayern fans who originally had doubts about Guardiola began to sing his praises.

The reporters who came to the scene had already begun to draft in their minds and began to think about how to praise Guardiola and the Bayern under his rule.

Ranking first in the league points and remaining undefeated, qualifying first in the Champions League group. Such a record is even better than the previous season.

This kind of achievement is certainly worth bragging about!

In the box at the Allianz Arena, Rummenigge also laughed and applauded after seeing Gotze's goal.

"Guardiola has done a good job, and the team's record and stability have improved a lot compared to last season."

If they defeat Manchester City in this game and take first place in the group, they will be in a favorable position in the knockout stage and advance to the quarterfinals.

"Haha, although Guardiola's coaching style is different from Heynckes, there is no doubt about his coaching ability."

Hoeness on the side saw Rummenigge looking very satisfied with Guardiola, so he quickly sent a rainbow fart.

Sammer glanced at the other party speechlessly. In his impression, Hoeness did not have such a high opinion of Guardiola before.

"Well, Muller has scored more goals. I think he is playing smarter than before, right, Mathias?"

Sammer nodded: "Both Muller and Cross have made great progress, and Ram has become more comprehensive, but..."

Guardiola's arrival has injected new blood into Bayern.

Under his training, Bayern players' skills at their feet have become more and more refined, and their cooperation on the court has become better.

Their technical and tactical style is gradually tending to be similar to that of La Liga teams, which is a change that makes him very happy.

However, some of Guardiola's reforms have made it a bit difficult for the club to handle.

For example, Guardiola doesn't like to use or is not good at using centers.

This has led to a very tense relationship between Mandzukic and Guardiola, with the former already putting pressure on the club through his agent:

If his main position can no longer be guaranteed, Mandzukic is likely to leave Bayern.

Now that Gomez has been released, Mandzukic is Bayern's only reliable forward.

If he leaves, Bayern will have no strong center available.

Although Guardiola doesn't like to use centers very much, Bayern is a giant and cannot do without players with this role.

Fortunately, Bayern's signing list is not without alternative players, such as Dortmund forward Lewandowski.

Sammer remembered that the other party's contract will expire next summer. At this time, Dortmund has not completed the contract extension with the other party, which shows that the other party has the intention to leave Dortmund.

In this case, it is better to get in touch with the other party and see if he is interested, just buy him.

So he took this opportunity to mention this matter.

"Dortmund's No. 9? That is indeed a good center forward. If he can be signed for free, the deal is still very cost-effective."

Rummenigge has an impression of Lewandowski. This guy once scored a hat-trick for Bayern and snatched away their championship trophy.

In addition to Lin Quan last season, Lewandowski is the second striker in the Bundesliga who impressed him.

Bayern is good at being an excavator in the Bundesliga and digging out outstanding players from other teams.

The advantage of this is that it can not only save a lot of transfer fees, but also weaken the strength of competitors and make Bayern's dominance in the Bundesliga stronger.

"Chairman, Schweinsteiger is a little dissatisfied with not being able to start the starting lineup. You see..."

Club manager Hoeness saw that Rummenigge was in a good mood, so he took the opportunity to speak.

The arrival of Gotze and Thiago has made competition in Bayern's midfield more intense, and Bastian Schweinsteiger's starting position is no longer so secure.

In addition, Piggy has indeed been injured a lot, which has led to Guardiola's recent tendency to abandon him.

Just like this game, for such an important game, Bastian Schweinsteiger didn't even make Guardiola's squad.

Xiaozhu is a serious Bayern youth training player. He joined Bayern at the age of 14 and has played for Bayern for more than 15 years.

For such a meritorious veteran, Bayern cannot offend him or clean him out roughly.

That would chill the veteran players and arouse dissatisfaction among the fans.

Therefore, Hoeness originally planned to talk to Guardiola.

However, after seeing such good results achieved under Guardiola's leadership, he felt a little lack of confidence.

"Yeah, I know!"

Rummenigge nodded, only saying that he was aware of the matter, but did not make it clear that he would intervene.

Among the 11 players in Bayern's game, except for Dante and Franck Ribery, who are 30 years old, and Lahm, who is close to 30 years old, the rest of the players are very young.

Goalkeeper Neuer is 27 years old and has just entered his peak period as a goalkeeper. He can still play for Bayern for at least seven, eight or even ten years!

Defenders Boateng and Alaba are 25 and 21 years old, and they can play for Bayern for at least ten years!

Thiago, Gotze, and Kroos in the midfield are all born in the 1990s. The eldest Kroos is only 23 years old, and the youngest Gotze is only 21 years old. It is no problem to play for Bayern for ten years.

Muller in the frontcourt was born in 1989 and is only 24 years old this year. There is no problem in playing for 89 or 9 years.

Mandzukic and Neuer are the same age and are now in their prime.

If he leaves and is replaced by Lewandowski in 1988, Bayern's lineup will further become younger.

As long as these players can be retained, Bayern's main structure will not need to be adjusted in the next ten years.

These players are not only young, but also very strong. More importantly, they have all proven their strength at Bayern.

Once Guardiola completely finalizes Bayern's technical and tactical style of play, even if he leaves Bayern, Bayern's record will not decline too much.

In this case, it is not easy for the club to intervene in his reform of the team.

The most Rummenigge can do is to calm down Piggy's mood, and then chat with Guardiola to see if he can also take a step back.

However, Rummenigge actually approves and even appreciates Guardiola's bold use of young players.

He is good at using young players, good at training young players, and is willing to give young players the opportunity to play. This has always been the evaluation and praise of Guardiola from the outside world.

Bayern originally invited him to coach because of this.

They hope Guardiola will help Bayern achieve a smooth transition after winning the championship and lay the foundation for the next rise.

Now it seems that Guardiola has perfectly completed the tasks they assigned.

More importantly, after transforming Bayern's team lineup, he also maintained an excellent record in both the league and the Champions League.

What else can be asked of such a coach?

Therefore, even Rummenigge does not dare to have a stalemate with Guardiola at this time.

If he gets angry and runs away, where can he find such a good coach?

…

On the sidelines, Guardiola did not look very excited when he saw his team taking the lead early.

In order to defeat Manchester City in this game, he made some adjustments to his tactical play.

Although he is not good at using centers, he still put Mandzukic into the starting lineup.

Facts have proved that this decision is very correct.

Mandzukic acted as a fulcrum in the frontcourt, and his ball play created favorable conditions for Bayern's offense.

Muller's first goal was an assist from Mandzukic, and Gotze's goal also had a lot to do with him.

But now that the score is ahead, the opponent is likely to launch a counterattack.

Guardiola is considering whether to replace Mandzukic with a fast winger who can break through in the second half?

In this case, when Manchester City attacks them, they can try to use their speed to counterattack.

But it is a pity that Robben was injured, and now only Ribery is left in the Robbery combination.

Fortunately, Shaqiri still sits on the bench. Although his strength is not as good as Robben's, he is still enough.

But it's still early, and it's impossible for Manchester City to do nothing after falling behind.

Thinking of this, Guardiola turned his attention to the young player wearing the light blue No. 10 jersey on the field.

Lin, your team is in dire straits, what will you do?

On the field, Manchester City's players were a little stunned.

Bayern's strength is indeed strong, completely different from the opponents they have encountered in the league.

The last time they played at home, they were overwhelmed by Bayern.

After coming to the opponent's home court this time, this feeling became even stronger.

Due to Pantilimon's poor performance in the league, Pellegrini lost trust in him.

This time Manchester City's starting goalkeeper was replaced by Joe Hart.

However, in the first half, the gate guarded by Joe Hart was breached twice by the opponent.

This made Joe Hart feel a bit disgraced and very anxious, fearing that he would be replaced in anger by the coach.

Fortunately, Pellegrini did not get angry at the goalkeeper because of these two missed goals.

The Chilean engineer is now more troubled by the team's defensive problems. He has begun to transform the team's defense since he first entered Manchester City.

Various guard combinations have been tried, but the results are still unsatisfactory.

In the Premier League before, they often conceded goals against weak teams. Now, on the road, facing the powerful Bayern Munich, do you expect this defense to not concede a single goal?

Go ahead and dream!

It's just that he didn't expect that the goal would come so early and so many goals would be conceded!

Falling behind by two goals in 12 minutes, this situation is too passive!

"Bayern seems to have seen through our defensive characteristics, and their offense is very targeted!"

"Mandzukic was just a cover today. He only served as a fulcrum in Bayern's offense. However, the presence of Muller as the second forward has not reduced Bayern's threat in the middle!"

The first goal conceded came from Mandzukic's back pass and Muller's unmarked forward shot.

This was a defensive mistake by Manchester City. After he changed his defensive strategy, Muller began to pull out again and cooperated with the players on the wing to attack Manchester City's back line.

Bayern's full-backs are very capable of assisting, and the strength of their wingers is even more outrageous.

After Muller also joined in, Manchester City's wings were undoubtedly blown away.

Gotze's second goal came from the wing!

Now they don't know what to do!

It feels like strengthening the defense at any position will not help.

Pellegrini glanced at Bayern's coaching bench with some fear. All his decisions seemed to have been understood in advance by that man.

He felt this way the last time he was at the Etihad Stadium.

This time at the Allianz Arena, this feeling is even more obvious!

Pellegrini felt a little frustrated. Could he really not defeat this man?

Seeing that the coaching staff had not made adjustments for a long time, the players on the field couldn't wait any longer, so they gathered together and discussed.

"Anyway, we are already behind. Why don't we give it a try and attack!"

What's the point of staying in your own half to defend when you're already two goals behind?

To compete for first place in the group, you must attack and score goals!

"Okay, I don't want to defend anymore. I've long wanted to rush out and kill them!"

"That's right, so what if Bayern is stronger? It's not like we haven't won before!"

"We were able to reverse them last time, and we can do the same this time!"

The players talked to each other, and their morale was successfully mobilized.

Although they were two goals behind, there was no expression of frustration or panic on their faces, but only anger and dissatisfaction.

Obviously, Manchester City's players have not lost their fighting spirit and are even a little irritated.

"Lin, which side should I hit?"

As the core of Manchester City's frontcourt offense, the players all looked at Lin Quan, waiting for him to make a choice.

Lin Quan took a look. Ribery was on the left side of Bayern and Gotze was on the right side.

He has played against both of them. If he is asked to evaluate them, Gotze is obviously the softer of the two. He is not as strong as Ribery in terms of physical confrontation or game experience.

In this case, let's play Gotze this time.

"David, let's fight like this..."

He discussed it with several players, and then all looked at Gotze.

Gotze felt some unkind eyes looking at him. When he looked up, he caught the eyes of Lin Quan and several other Manchester City players.

Seeing the smile on the other side's lips, Gotze felt baffled.

You are two goals behind, and you can still laugh?

If we want to laugh, we should laugh, right?

However, after the game restarted, Gotze couldn't laugh anymore.

Because he saw the core of Manchester City, he came directly to the goal after dribbling the ball and appeared in front of him.